Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers

Re:Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers by dEnigma on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:55AM (#14908988)

Most of the things you list as MSG alternatives actually contain MSG; like tomatoes, konbu dashi, and many fermented products.

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Re:Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers by NoGravitas on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:45AM (#14909723)

Yeah, a lot of times you'll see MSG in ingredients lists as "hydrolysed vegetable protein", or "hydrolysed soy protein". And that's exactly what you're getting in soy sauce, or tomatoes, or konbu dashi -- naturally produced MSG.

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Re:Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers by jlebrech on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:16AM (#14909874)

One is L-shaped (artificial and flavour enhancing) the other is natural.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/4433/Monosodium-Glutamate-MSG...

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Re:Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers by mustacheemperor on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:16AM (#14911192)

Since when is "natural vs artificial" evidence of relative healthiness, or even a logical basis for comparison at all? You have numerous comments in this thread all drawing on the same fallacy that some MSG can be "good" and some can be "bad" when that is inherently impossible.

Producing a URL with the word "science" in it ending in .org is not sufficient evidence. Find a single empirical datapoint or published study, otherwise stop spreading fearmongering speculation. Do you concern yourself with which table salt to buy because it may be "bad NaCl"?

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Re:Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers by dEnigma on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:34PM (#14913321)

Surely the flavour enhancing one must be the natural one, or else meat wouldn't have the umami taste, or am I missing something?

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